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...dude that messed up the Muhammad Ali story," he says. He also had trouble relating to a man whose life had been so defined by racial injustice. "I'm a child of rap music," says Smith, who started his career in music and still moonlights as a rapper. "We've got Bentleys. We can't even relate to not being able to sit in somebody's lunch counter. I'll buy the counter and throw you out." But for Ali, Smith was always the first choice: "He's the only guy in the world who could look like...
...letter C, Linkin Park rocks and raps about its own sense of alienation, frustration and loneliness over a furious wall of musical fuzz. But what separates Linkin Park from the rest of the rapidly expanding nu-metal field is that the band's six members--Bennington, Hahn, 24, rapper Mike Shinoda, 24, guitarist Brad Delson, 24, bassist Phoenix (just Phoenix, thanks), 24, and drummer Rob Bourdon, 23--inject nearly everything they do (save their songs) with a sweetly humanistic approach. They may scream "Shut up when I'm talking to you" like misunderstood demons, but they don't wear goth...
...establishing her career in the U.S. She recently performed a song called Blow My Whistle, which was included on the sound track of the movie Rush Hour 2. Produced by the Neptunes, one of the hottest American hip-hop production duos around, the song features a cameo from gangsta rapper Foxy Brown. Utada said her producers were worried at first that she and Brown might not be a good fit, given their different temperaments and backgrounds. They got along just fine. The idea of having her on the song came from Pharrell (Williams, one-half of the Neptunes), says Utada...
...Their mix of creative lyrics and self-deprecating humor creates songs that both impress you and make you smile. Even the album’s title, Fome is Dape (a rearrangement of “Fame is Dope”), plays on this ironic sense of both being a rapper and retaining humility. The duo’s talent is evident in the rhymes, as well as in the breadth and variety of their music. You can hear songs reminiscent of old Beastie Boys to Eminem to Boyz II Men. Little-T and One Track Mike, however, never lose their...
PAUL MCCARTNEY and rapper Jay-Z don't appear, at first glance, to have loads in common: one is the pushing-60 former Beatle who sang "Life Goes On"; the other is the thirtysomething former street hustler who sang Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem). But both performed without material reward Saturday at the Concert for New York City in Madison Square Garden, a benefit for Sept. 11 attack victims that McCartney headlined. A Woodstock's worth of musicians did their thing, including David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Billy Joel, the Who and Elton John. Short films by Woody Allen, Spike...